1590 Nor ladies shod with sandal shoon, nor girdle That caught the eye more than the person did. 1591 Not yet the daughter at her birth struck fear Into the father, for the time and dower Did not o’errun this side or that the measure. No houses had she void of families, Not yet had thither come Sardanapalus To show what in a chamber can be done; 1592 Not yet surpassed had Montemalo been 1593 By your Uccellatojo, which surpassed 1594 Shall in its downfall be as in its rise. Bellincion Berti saw I go begirt 1595 With leather and with bone, and from the mirror His dame depart without a painted face; And him of Nerli saw, and him of Vecchio, 1596 Contented with their simple suits of buff And with the spindle and the flax their dames.